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Chances are few people following my account here need to be told about this, but for the record ...
The Trained #MOLE tacked on to Brave Search confidently told me;
"There is no known event called 'Operation 8' related to the Dominion Post."
Then it went on to tell me all about the time the Post was taken to court for publishing edited transcripts from police interviews related to ... Operation 8, complete with links to news stories (see screenshots, alt-text care of @altbot).
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A classic example of how a Trained #MOLE has no clue what it's saying. It's just a regurgitation machine, no intelligence involved.
At least Brave are clear that;
"AI-generated answer. Please verify critical facts."
But that disclaimer probably needs to go at the *top* of the MOLE-vomited text @brave. In a large, impossible to ignore typeface. Not at the bottom, in tiny, greyed out text, which only a careful observer who scrolled to the bottom will see.
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@strypey Here's an alt-text description of the image:
The image is a screenshot of a digital document or webpage, likely from a mobile device, displaying text. The text appears to be a legal statement or excerpt discussing a case involving a newspaper and its publisher, Fairfax Media. The statement details a legal proceeding initiated in April 2008 against the newspaper and publisher, but ultimately ruled in October 2008 that neither Fairfax Media nor the newspaper's editor were guilty of contempt. The text further states, "There is no evidence of a 'Dominion Post' event related to 'Operation 8,'" and adds that this term does not correspond to any known historical or legal event tied to the newspaper. The relevant legal action involved the 2007 publication of sensitive police material, leading to a contempt case that was ultimately dismissed.
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Here's an alt-text description of the image:
The image is a screenshot of a smartphone interface, specifically a search results page. At the top of the screen is a search bar with the query "operation 8 Dominion". Below the search bar are options labeled "All" and "Images". The screen also displays a brief text description that reads "The image is a screenshot of a smartphone interface, specifically a search results page." The text continues to explain that the Dominion Post, a New Zealand newspaper, was involved in a legal case in 2008 concerning police surveillance transcripts related to a terrorism investigation. The text also states that in November 2007, the Dominion Post published a front-page story titled "The Terrorism Files" which included excerpts from police surveillance tapes and a photograph of an armed officer.
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Here's an alt-text description of the image:
The image shows a screenshot of a mobile phone display, presenting a text document with several paragraphs of written content. The text is formatted with numbered footnotes indicated by superscript numbers. The document discusses a legal case involving a newspaper publishing sensitive police materials, specifically “tapes and a photograph of an armed officer”. The text details how the publication violated court suppression orders meant to protect the accused’s right to a fair trial, leading to legal proceedings initiated by the Solicitor-General against the newspaper and its publisher, Fairfax Media, in April 2008. The document concludes with the High Court ruling in October 2008 that neither Fairfax Media nor the newspaper’s editor were guilty of contempt, despite breaching the suppression orders.
The verbatim text is: “tapes and a photograph of an armed officer”.
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